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Look at “Bookends” How does Harrison convey the nature of his relationship with his parents in the poem
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Look at "Bookends" How does Harrison convey the nature of his relationship with his parents in the poem? In Bookends Harrison conveys a strained and stolid relationship between him and his father, which becomes more apparent after his mother's death. Born in 1937, Harrison came from a lower class family and lived in Leeds. His mother was a housewife and his father miner then a bakery worker who failed the 11+ exams. Harrison on the other hand passed and won a scholarship into Leeds grammar school and went on to study classics at Leeds University. Harrison's literary prowess resulted in a breakdown in the relationship he shared with his father due to his father's lack of understanding of his son's interest in literature. It was during this period that the mother held their relationship together, but when she passed away this ended and Harrison and his father became estranged. Harrison begins...
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